Comments on: Picking The Perfect Winter Boardhttp://www.surfermag.com/features/the-perfect-winter-ride/
Surf News, Fantasy Surfer, Photos, Video and ForecastingSat, 01 Aug 2015 21:54:00 -0700hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: Randallhttp://www.surfermag.com/features/the-perfect-winter-ride/#comment-471
Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:28:54 +0000http://www.surfermag.com/?p=11547#comment-471James – You were surfing during physics class. The Titanic floated too, but weighed a lot. Anything floats to the extent that it displaces the same weight of water. While paddling your wetsuit is above water and pushes down on your board. Weigh yourself with a soaked wetsuit and without to determine its weight effect on your board.
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Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:58:07 +0000http://www.surfermag.com/?p=11547#comment-470The wetsuit isn’t floating when you’re out of the water smart guy, either paddling or standing on top of the board. So yeah, the expert shapers do know what they are talking about.
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Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:36:35 +0000http://www.surfermag.com/?p=11547#comment-469Wetsuits float and thus do not need to be compensated for buoyancy reasons. Toss one in the water and see for yourself. Anyone duckdiving in big cold surf has witnessed the floatation they add to the surfer. They do retain water but even when soaked will float on their own thus not adding to weight the board has to compensate for. There may be other good reasons to add volume to a board but “weight” of the wetsuit is no one of them.
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